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2018 Wijk aan Zee 12 - 28 January
Posted: Wed Oct 18, 2017 3:19 pm
by Mick Norris
Good to see Gawain playing in a strong field
Preliminary list of participants Tata Steel Chess Tournament 2018, Tata Steel Masters
Name Country Rating World Ranking
Magnus Carlsen Norway 2826 1
Fabiano Caruana USA 2794 4
Vladimir Kramnik Russia 2794 5
Shakhryar Mamedyarov Azerbaijan 2791 6
Wesley So USA 2788 7
Viswanathan Anand India 2783 9
Sergey Karjakin Russia 2765 12
Anish Giri Netherlands 2762 13
Wei Yi China 2740 18
Hou Yifan China 2678 64
Adhiban Baskaran India 2671 75
Gawain Jones England 2662 83
announcement
Visiting 17 Jan
Hilversum and
Groningen
Re: 2018 Wijk aan Zee 12 - 28 January
Posted: Wed Oct 18, 2017 6:12 pm
by Matt Mackenzie
That's a cracking line up actually, GJ has his work cut out!
Re: 2018 Wijk aan Zee 12 - 28 January
Posted: Fri Oct 20, 2017 8:04 am
by Mick Norris
Pete Doggers report
he 13th grandmaster will be announced in November and the 14th a month later, when it is known who will be the highest ranked player in the ACP Competition with a rating under 2750 on 1 December. The participants of the Tata Steel Challengers will be announced in November
Re: 2018 Wijk aan Zee 12 - 28 January
Posted: Mon Nov 20, 2017 8:53 am
by Mick Norris
Peter Svidler has been added to the line up
Re: 2018 Wijk aan Zee 12 - 28 January
Posted: Mon Dec 04, 2017 3:11 pm
by Mick Norris
Matlakov now confirmed as the final player
Name Country Rating World Ranking
Magnus Carlsen Norway 2837 1
Shakhryar Mamedyarov Azerbaijan 2799 3
Fabiano Caruana USA 2799 4
Wesley So USA 2788 6
Vladimir Kramnik Russia 2787 7
Viswanathan Anand India 2782 8
Peter Svidler Russia 2765 12
Sergey Karjakin Russia 2760 13
Anish Giri Netherlands 2752 14
Wei Yi China 2743 19
Maxim Matlakov Russia 2735 23
Hou Yifan China 2680 64
Adhiban Baskaran India 2655 95
Gawain Jones England 2654 96
Average rating: 2753
Re: 2018 Wijk aan Zee 12 - 28 January
Posted: Mon Dec 04, 2017 3:12 pm
by Mick Norris
Tata Steel Challengers
Name Country Year of Birth Rating
Vidit Gujrathi India 1994 2715
Bassem Amin Egypt 1988 2689
Michal Krasenkow Poland 1963 2671
Anton Korobov Ukraine 1985 2652
Matthias Blübaum Germany 1997 2642
Erwin l'Ami Netherlands 1985 2634
Jeffrey Xiong USA 2000 2634
Jorden van Foreest Netherlands 1999 2629
Dmitry Gordievsky Russia 1996 2610
Benjamin Bok Netherlands 1995 2601
Aryan Tari Norway 1999 2593
Harika Dronavalli India 1991 2504
Olga Girya Russia 1991 2484
Lucas van Foreest Netherlands 2001 2481
Average rating: 2610
Re: 2018 Wijk aan Zee 12 - 28 January
Posted: Fri Jan 12, 2018 9:31 pm
by Mick Norris
Pairings
Good luck to Gawain who gets black against Caruana, Kramnik, Carlsen & So
Round 1 Sat 13th Jan 12:30 GMT
Giri-Hou Yifan
Kramnik-Wei Yi
Svidler-Adhiban
Carlsen-Caruana
Jones-Karjakin
Anand-Matlakov
So-Mamedyarov
Tata Steel 2018
Posted: Fri Jan 12, 2018 9:32 pm
by Tim Harding
Play in the 2018 Tata Steel starts tomorrow afternoon at Wijk aan Zee. The round 1 draw is up.
Gawain Jones has White against Sergei Karjakin; I am sure all Forumites wish him all the best of luck and great games in this major event to celebrate his recent 30th birthday.
Other first round games in the Masters:
Magnus Carlsen v Fabiano Caruana (!)
Anish Giri v Hou Yifan
Vladimir Kramnik v Wei Yi
Peter Svidler v Adhiban
Vishy Anand v Matlakov
Wesley So v Mamedyarov
I gather that Loek van Wely declined his usual invitation.
Chess24 commentators, for this round at least, are announced as Robin Van Kampen and Yasser Seirawan.
Pairings for the Challengers can be seen at
https://chess24.com/en/watch/live-tourn ... 2018/1/1/1.
The Van Foreest brothers play in round one, presumably a forced pairing?
Re: Tata Steel 2018
Posted: Fri Jan 12, 2018 9:38 pm
by Tim Harding
I started a new thread for this because the old one was nowhere near the top of the list when I was writing, then somebody else posted.
Can the moderator please merge so we don't have rival threads, thanks?
Re: 2018 Wijk aan Zee 12 - 28 January
Posted: Fri Jan 12, 2018 9:41 pm
by IM Jack Rudd
Merger done.
Re: 2018 Wijk aan Zee 12 - 28 January
Posted: Fri Jan 12, 2018 9:51 pm
by Tim Harding
Very quick; thanks, Jack.
Re: 2018 Wijk aan Zee 12 - 28 January
Posted: Sat Jan 13, 2018 10:13 am
by Mick Norris
Re: 2018 Wijk aan Zee 12 - 28 January
Posted: Sat Jan 13, 2018 1:06 pm
by Tim Harding
And they're off! Gawain played the Italian against Karjakin, the old line with 5 d4 and 7 Bd2, effectively offering the well-known draw which was declined after one repetition. No novelty yet though Karjakin had a long think on move 14. Gawain has just played 15 (13) Ne4 instead of the standard 15 a4.
Carlsen-Caruana is a Petroff.
Re: 2018 Wijk aan Zee 12 - 28 January
Posted: Sat Jan 13, 2018 7:55 pm
by Tim Harding
Wins today for Giri (v Hou Yifan), Anand (v Matlakov), and Kramnik (v Wei Yi). Other four drawn.
Satisfactory start for Gawain to draw with Karjakin.
Tomorrow's pairings:
Caruana - Jones
Adhiban - Carlsen
Karjakin - Anand
Hou Yifan - Mamedyarov
Matlakov - So
Wei Yi - Svidler
Giri - Kramnik
Re: 2018 Wijk aan Zee 12 - 28 January
Posted: Sat Jan 13, 2018 8:03 pm
by Matt Mackenzie
Giri v Hou looked dead drawn last time I looked, but Q endings are tricky!